Tbeatrum ‘Botanicnm, 
Tribe 12^ 
1126 Chap. 25. 
head of every one of them which being hulled is very 
white,of the bigneffe almoft of Wheate comes, blant at 
both ends. 
The Place and Time. 
The originall fonrfe hereof came out of the Eaft Indies', 
where it is their chiefeft if not onely Corne they live up¬ 
on,and not with them onely but through all Ethiopia and 
Africa and from thence hath bcene brought into Syria, 
Egypt,Italj^c. whereloever it is feene to bee fowen, 
and ioveth onely to grow in moift grounds, or luch as 
maybcoveiflowcn in the Summer time,and the waters 
let out againe, being but a Summer Corne, and is yeareJy 
fowen and gathered in the middle or end of Autumne 
with us,but twiie a yeare in divers places of the Eaft /«- 
dies , whole goodneffc ebiefely conlifteth in the large- 
nefleand whicenefic, which the hotter countries onely 
produce. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greekc o’ ? u'C a , and fo in Latine Oryza 
by all authors, \ er fome a,oe call it Italica for a difference 
to the Oryz.t Germanicajf which Cor dm on Diofcorides 
faith is called Schveaden with them, or being a kinde 
thereof at the lead, although kher, having the fame 
talte and ufe, and the fame proportion in ftalkes, leaves, 
and (pikes, with a j»ha like Milium, growing alio in 
marifh and plafhy places as Rice doth) yet Hermolaus , 
Ruellim end tome other have thought it to bee the Hor - 
deumCjaUticumoi Columella , but I have (liewed you 
what that is in the <. hapter of Barly : why Galen fhould 
account Rice inter legttmin* potim cjuam inter cere alia, as 
he did before of Oates,and of Panick afterwards, many 
d -c wonder,feeing their formes are lo differcnt,buthim- 
felfe I thinke rcndereih the reafon, Fecaufe it was 
not made into bread t s the reft of the other Comes are : 
The Arabians call it A< ^ and Arv, the Italians Riz.o, the 
Spaniards Arrcz., the FrcnchRys , the Cjermancs Reijf, the 
T>utch Rtjs, and we Rice. 
The Vertucs. 
Rice is chiefely ufed medecinally to (lay the Laskes or fluxes of the ftomacke as well as of the belly, efpecially 
if it be a little parched before it be ufed, and Steele quenched in the milke wherein it fhall be boylcd, being lome- 
what binding and drying-.it is thought alfo to encrealc feed, being boyled in milke and fomc Sugar and Cinamon 
put thereunto: the flower of Rice is of the lame propertie,and is fometimes alfo put into cataplafmes that are ap- 
plied ro repellhumors from flowing or falling to the place, and is alfo conveniently applyed 10 womens breafts to 
ftay inflammations when they begin. 
Chap. XXIII. 
Cdlilium. Millet. 
F M.’llet there are divers forts,(ome familiarly growing in Europe others brought out of the more re- 
more countries, as (hall be declared. 
1 . CMilium vulgare Album. Common white Millet. 
This Millet groweth with many hard joynted tall ftalkes full ofa white Pith,yet foft and a little 
hairy or downy on the outfide, with long and large Reede-like leaves at them compafling one ano¬ 
ther, the toppes of the ftalkes are furnifhed with a number of whitifh yellow long fprigges like feathers, bowing 
downetheir heads, let all along with (mail feede inclofed in a whitifh huske, which being taken forth are of a 
fhinirig paleyellowifh or whitifhcolour, fomewhat hard little bigger then the feede of Fleawort; therootc 
bufheth much inthegiound but perifheth jearely. 
l. Milium nigrum. Blacke Millet. 
Thisother Millet difftreth little from the former, being fomewhat leffe with us, faving that as ihtjubaoi 
tuft is brownilh, fo is the leedc alio blackifh and fhining, very like elfe to the other. 
’Jftielicafive Sorghum. Indian Millet. 
This Millet is in all the parts thereof larger,greater and higher then the former,rifing to be five or fix foot high or 
more,tne ftalkes ai e fu 1 ’ of joynrs and large long leaves at them, the juba or tuft ftanderh upright and boweth not 
downerheheadastheucher, whereon Hand the (cede as big but not flat as Lentills fomewhat round, andeythcr 
whitifh, yellow, red or blackiih, hard and (Fining, the roote bufheth more then the other yet perifheth alfo. 
The Pla e and Time. 
Millet, of allthe forts came firfl into Europe out of the Eafterne countries, the two fir ft forts long before the daft 
kinde, and the fortes of it. and require a ftrong ground well watered, for they foone empoverifh a ground if it 
be not ftill enriched, nor will it profper in leane dric foilc; it is to be fowne in lApriti, and the graine in the hot¬ 
ter climates will be ripe in Augujl cr September . 
The 
Ori^a. Rice. 
